Jens andreas trendel



(No ModeL) J; A. TRENDEL.

COLLAR BUTTON.

Patented Jan. 7, 1 896 M mm fl NMJ.

COM;

ATTORNEY.

I UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JENS ANDREAS TRENDEL, OF KULMBACH, GERMANY.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,626, dated January'7, 1896.

Application filed May 1, 1894. Serial No. 509,714. (No model.) Patentedin Germany March 17,1894, No. 78,914; in Austria March 19, 1394; inBelgium March 20,1894; in France March 21, 1894, and in England May1,1894.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J nNs ANDREAS TREN- DEL, a subject of the Emperor ofGermany, residing at Kulmbach, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, haveinvented a new and Improved Oollar-Button, (for which I have obtainedLetters Patent in Germany, No. '78, 914, dated March 17, 1894; inAustria under date of March 19, 1894; in Belgium under date of March 20,1984; in France under date of March 21,1894, and in England under dateof May 1, 1894,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to buttons, and more particularly to such as areused to temporarily attach the ends of a collar to a shirt-neck.

The object of my invention is to provide a button which may be insertedin the holes of a shirt neck and collar to adjustably hold the latter inplace. It is sometimes very desirable, especially in summer time, tohave a collar fit loosely the wearers neck and again at other times, asin winter, to have a closefitting collar. Such changes may be veryreadily made with one and the same collar or neck band of a shirt byusing my improved collar-button.

The invention consists of a collar-button comprising a back plate, astem having loops at either side of a median line of the button and afront plate or disk.

The invention further consists of the improvements hereinafter morefully described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a description of my invention,a is the back plate of the button, to which a shaftb of wire or othermaterial having the shape of an inverted S is securely attached. Thisshaft 1) is shaped to form the loops b and b, extendin g in oppositedirections from a median line of the button. The outer end of the shaftin is concentric with the back plate a and adapted to receive the endsof the collar 6, which are retained thereon by the head 0.

From Fig. 2 it will be observed that the .neckband cl may be shortenedby hooking both ends of the neckband 01 over the outer bars toward theright or left and forming either the loops b or 5 or if it is desired tohave a wide shirt-neck the ends thereof are placed in the respectiveloops b or b as shown, and it will also be observed that one or theother ends of the collar 6 may be placed over the outer bar forming theloop I), by which the collar e may be rendered to fit more closely orloosely the wearers neck.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- Acollar-button comprising a back-plate a, a head 0 and a shaft 1) unitingsaid back-plate a and head 0, a loop 6 formed in said shaft andextending in one direction from a median line of the button, anotherloop 19 formed in the same shaft and extending in an opposite directionfrom the said median line, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

Signed at Nuremberg, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire, this 13thday of April, 1894.

JENS ANDREAS TRENDEL.

Witnesses:

OSCAR BooK, A. Grnrr.

